The Oracle Exadata Storage Server Cloud Scale Software Update feature introduces a brand new cloud-scale software update process for storage servers. You point the storage servers to a software store. The storage servers download new software in the background. You can schedule the preferred time of software update. Storage servers automatically upgrade the Oracle Exadata System Software in a rolling fashion while keeping the databases online. A single software repository can be used for hundreds of storage servers. This feature provides simpler and faster software updates for Cloud and On-Premise customers.

Each storage server downloads the software to its active partition, and then loads the software on its passive partition. The storage servers then reboot to the new version according to a specified schedule.

This feature improves scalability of software updates by allowing storage servers to update without dedicated patchmgr sessions. When updating hundreds of storage servers, administrators can use dcli to issue ALTER SOFTWAREUPDATE commands to set the software location and time parameters for all storage servers. Multiple software locations could be used for very large deployments to reduce contention.

See Scheduling Automated Updates of Storage Servers in the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Maintenance Guide for details.

Minimum requirements:

• Oracle Exadata System Software 18c (18.1.0). You can use this feature to install subsequent software updates.